Mosses and Lichens 



Hutchins's Ulota; Ulota Hutchinsice, Schimp. 

 Habit and habitat. The plant grows in dark red-brown tufts, 

 rigid and fragile. They are common on granite rocks in the 

 mountains. 



Name. The specific name was given by Wilhelm Philipp 

 Schimper in honour of Miss Hutchins, who first collected the 

 plants on the lake shore near Bantry, Ireland. 



Leaves. Close and overlapping like shingles, rigid and 

 appressed when dry; erect or slightly spreading when moist; 

 oblong, lance-shaped; apex obtuse; base oval or oblong; margins 

 turned back; vein strong; cells, the basal linear or worm-like, the 

 marginal somewhat 4-sided, the upper small. 



Habit of flowering. Male and female flowers on the same 



plant (monoicous)\ the male flower- 

 clusters bud-like. 



Veil (calyptra). Very hairy. 

 Spore-case. Oval, narrowed to a 

 very long neck 8-furrowed the whole 

 length, hardly contracted at the mouth. 

 Pedicel (seta). Long. 

 Lid (operculum). Conical, taper- 



U. Hutchinsice. Portion DOinted 



of peristome with four cilia 



and six teeth in pairs. Teeth (perisiome). Eight; long, 



lance-shaped, in pairs, entire or split at the apex, reflexed when 

 dry; the inner segments eight, a little shorter than the teeth. 



Spores. Mature in summer. 



Distribution. Common in mountainous regions 



MOSSES WITH STRAIGHT-HAIRED VEILS 

 Genus ORTHOTRICHUM, Hedw. (See Plate XIV.) 



The species of the Genus Orthotrichum grow in round 

 cushions on rocks, trees and walls. The plants are usually erect, 

 with branching stems having radicles at the bases. 



The leaves are lance-shaped, lapping like shingles, rarely 

 twisted when dry, the surface is covered with minute protuber- 

 ances, or is rarely smooth in the upper part; the margin is 

 recurved; the cells toward the apex of the leaf are dot-like and 

 contain chlorophyll, toward the lower part they are longer and 



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